From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: Why min-colors 88?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:41:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a0602051741g7bb03a1cj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20843.1139178667@olgas.newt.com>
2006/2/6, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>:
> if Eric ensures that none of
> the colors maps to the same device color
I don't think this is necessary -- the question is not whether all
colors used in Emacs faces are unique, but whether _in practice_ the
result is confusing or not (and a bit of extra headroom for user
modifications). With only 8 colors there's so much duplication that
it makes the user interface less usable (and so special treatment is
given low-color devices), but apparently 88 colors has proven "rich
enough" that this isn't the case.
Probably you can't really verify this mechanically, though a tool that
pointed out duplicate faces due to the restricted gamut might prove
useful in looking for problems.
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-03 19:50 Why min-colors 88? Bill Wohler
2006-02-04 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-05 6:18 ` Bill Wohler
2006-02-05 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-05 17:05 ` Bill Wohler
2006-02-05 18:49 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2006-02-05 22:31 ` Bill Wohler
2006-02-06 1:41 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-02-06 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-05 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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